Huntsville gazette., 1887-04-02
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS,

killed at Mount Miggs, Ala, few days
ago, while resisting arrest. He had open
| ly defied the officers and swore he would
kill or be killed before he woul d surrsn-
der. His two step-sons were wounded.
The Sidney family was terror to the
community.
Moses Miller colored man living in
Lynchburg, Va, choked his wife to death
few nights ago, and then cut his own
throat. Miller may possibly recover.
Jealousy is assigned as the cause of the
| murder.
The Governor of Louisiana has off cred a
| reward for the conviction of the persons
implicated in outrages recently commit
ted in the parish of West Carroll against
Polish Jews, with the view of driving
then oit of the community.
Mingo Jones, negro, was tried recently
at Memphis, Tenn, for the murder Of the
Justi family on the Pigeon r ,ost road and
was declared not guilty AS Jones has a
sentence of ninetynine years in the peni-
tentiary for the poisoning of woman
over him, his acquittal is of little moment
to him.
| 1t is stated that the widow of President
Polk keeps ali her husbands private ef-
fects in his old office at Nashville, Tenn,
quite undisturbed.
Julia Darrow, colored, one hundred and
eight years old, supposed to be the oldest
woman in the State, died recently at
Gloversvile, Ky. She was born in Mont
gomery County in 1873 and was slave on
the Colonel Sammon3 farm. She remained
there until sold to her late husband at the
age of sixteen for $3.50. She was the
mother of seventeen children, three of
whom survive her. She leaves considera-
BILE property.
The North Carolina Legislature at it's
recent session, passed an act which is
copy of the New York law, prohibiting the
publication of lottery advertisements in
North Carolina. The penalty is severe,
end the pub isher of newspaper is in
dictable in any county where it circulates
If it contains such an advertisement. The
first paper to be indicted is the Whining
ton Star.
John B. Simmons, highly respected
merchant doing bus ness short distance
from Russellville, KY, was murdered by
unknown parties a few nights ago, and
the money in the store and on his person,
only small amount, was taken. The
most intense excitement prevailed in the
neighborhood of the tragedy.
| A party of st. Louis capitalists and
others having desire to see the booms
and boomlets in process of development
in the South, have recently been 90 ng
the centers of attraction in Tennessee and
Alabama.
Arthur j. DurbiD, one of the Oldest and
best known Catholic priests in the West.
! died at Shelbyville, KY, few days ago,
| in his eightv-eighth year. He was buried
from the Cathedral in Louisville.
OF the one hundred soldiers who went
from Sullivan County, Tenn, to take part
in the Mexican war twelve are living.
A half million dollar hotel is among the
contemplated Improvements at Birming.
ham, Ala. this spring
Negotiations are in progress with Gin
cinnati firm to establish a large rolling
mill at Decatur, Ala.
Iron and coal have been discovered at
Mansfield, La, and the inha titants of the
place are busily working up boom look
ing to the development of their burel
treasures.
An immense meat curing esta blishment
is to be put up at Colorado City, Tex,
using new chemical prccess recently
discovered, which preserves dressed
meats better and cheaper than by refrig-
Grafton.
Michael Flaherty. one of the crew of the
snag- boat John R. Megs. now operating
in the Tallahatchie river. was drowned a
few days ago by the upsetting of a sl1iff in
which he was crossing the river with two
other men. Flaherty was from st. Louis,
ard was an old steamboatman.
Hon John Sherman received deputa-
ton of eolored men at the Metropolitan
Hotel. Birmingham, Ala, during his stay
in th at city recent v, who presented him
flo Qrip
complimentary to the Ohio statesman, to
which Mr.. Sherman made brief but
cordial response.
The largest single sale of cotton on
record was made at Galveston. Tex, a
few days ago. J. P. Willis q Bro. sold
500 bales, stored in that city, to Messrs
Kaufman & Runge for an amount ap-
proximating $4,000.
Jeruca, Mexican woman, twenty
years of age, while sitting alone in front
of fire at her home near San Antorio,
Tex, few evening since, fell, in an
epileptic fit, into the burning embers, and
when rescued by passing nelghbor was
| found to be 50 badly burned that her re-
covery was impossible.
The Female seminary at franklin, KY,
was destroyed by fire few days ago.
Loss, $4,000; no insurance.
large cotton factory is to be erected
at Columbus, Miss, on the site Of the old
jail in that city, which was recent y pur-
chased by the Tombigbee Cotton Factory
Company. A new and improved Jail is to
be erected at once upon property secured
+ by the county for that purpose.
Fire a few nights ago destroyed four
stores on Dryades street, New Orleans.
The loss is estimated at $50, 900: fully in
sured. The following were burned out:
J. I. McKenna, grocery; Boylands
crockery store; Gimble's shoe store and
an adjoining furnit ure store.
James Thomas, Sr., father Of John w.
Thomas, president of the Nashville, Chat
tanooga & ST.. Louis railway, died few
days ago, aged eighty five years. The de-
ceased was well known and highly re-
spected
The trial of Ike Vincent, the defaulting
captured ex-State Treasurer OF Alabama,
has been set for April II. Attorney-Gen-
eral Mcclellan will assist in the prosecu-
ton, which the Governor says will be Wig
orous.
At Somerset, KY, VIM Bates, deputy
United States marshal, shot man named
Cheney through the heart, few nights